So what would you guess the odds are that Pixologic will release an auto-retop plugin for Z Brush? Doubtful, Likely, Highly Likely?
I am getting ready to buy 3D Coat specifically for this feature. But would hate to do it and have Pixo drop a free plugin a week later. Any rumors circulating? Any solid info circulating?
I could only speculate but do note they absorbed Tomas Pettersson the creator of sculptris there is going to be some good stuff that will come out of that arrangement. save your money the output for autoretopo in 3dcoat is not completely there. take a look at what blender which is free and has this plugin that you should take a look at. http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Extensions:2.5/Py/Scripts/Mesh/Surface_Sketch
thanks for the advice and the link. i will check it out.
I recall just recently seeing a Blender retopology tutorial in which the author explained that he was using the standard Blender tool rather than a plugin (I think it was Surface Sketch) because the plugin gave unpredictable results on some meshes. I don’t know about that first hand. But you might want to google “Blender retopology” if you are thinking about investing time with Blender on the basis of that plugin.